Booklist 2012 - June
Greetings from Münster. An advantage of working at a cinema - you get to read a LOT of books...
2012 (97):
A morbid initiation (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
A Nomad of the Time Streams (Michael Moorcock)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Against a dark background (Iain M. Banks)
The Algebraist (Iain M. Banks)
Der Amboss der Welt (The Anvil of the World) (Kage Baker)
Die anderen Erden (The wreaks of time) (Michael Moorcock)
Ashes and Angel Wings (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Beast Within (Stewart Wick, Edit.)
Behold the man (Michael Moorcock)
Bloody Scotland (Terry Deary)
Blut der Abtrünnigen - Der Große Bruderkrieg 11 (Tales of Heresy) (Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestly, Editors)
The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson)
Das Buch Corum (Michael Moorcock)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
Das Cornelius Rezept (A cure for cancer) (Michael Moorcock)
Cthulhu Geistergeschichten (H.P. Lovecraft)
The cut-throat Celts (Terry Deary)
Daemon World (Ben Counter)
The Dancers at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Dark Imperium (Marc Gascoigne, Andy Jones, Editors)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Drood (Dan Simmons)
Der Eiserne Rat (Iron Council)
Eiszeit 4000 (The ice Schooner) (Michael Moorcock)
Eldritch Tales - A miscellancy of the macabre (H.P. Lovecraft)
Elric at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Elric von Melniboné - Die Sage vom Ende der Zeit (Michael Moorcock)
Excession (Iain M. Banks)
Feersum Endjiin (Iain M. Banks)
Fool Moon - The Dresden Files 2 (Jim Butcher)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Founding - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
Gloriana or the unfulfilled Queen (Michael Moorcock)
Der Gottkaiser des Wüstenplaneten (God-Emperor of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Grave Peril - The Dresden Files 3 (Jim Butcher)
Das Haus Atreides (Dune: House Atreides) (Brain Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Harkonnen (Dune: House Harkonnen) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Corrino (Dune: House Corrino) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten (Dune Messiah) (Frank Herbert)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
Hunters of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Die Hyperion-Gesänge (Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion) (Dan Simmons)
Ilium (Dan Simmons)
Imperium (Robert Harris)
Imperium (Hans-Christian Huf)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jennifer Goverment (Max Barry)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanne Clarke)
Die Ketzer des Wüstenplaneten (Heretics of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kinder des Wüstenplaneten (Children of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kriegsmeute (The Warhound & the World's Pain) (Michael Moorcock)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Lustrum (Robert Harris)
The Lost - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
The Madness of Priests (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
Magira - Jahrbuch zur Fantasy 2005 (Hermann Ritter, Michael Scheuch, editors)
Maschinengeist (Chris Schlicht)
Matter (Iain M. Banks)
Miss Brunners letztes Programm (The final Programme) (Michael Moorcock)
Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
Olympos (Dan Simmons)
Die Ordensburg des Wüstenplaneten (Chapterhouse Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Paul of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Pawns of Chaos (Brian Craig)
Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
Die Rache der Rose (The Revenge of the Rose) (Michael Moorcock)
The Road to Dune (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Der Runenstab (Michael Moorcock)
The Saint - A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Dan Abnett)
Sandworms of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Scar (China Miéville)
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling, Wolfgang Jeshke, Editors)
The Seven Deadlies (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Die Stadt des Ungeheuers (The City of the Beast) (Michael Moorcock)
The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
Storm Front - The Dresden Files 1 (Jim Butcher)
Summer Knight - The Dresden Files 4 (Jim Butcher)
Surface Detail (Iain M. Banks)
Tochter der Traumdiebe (The Dreamthief's Daughter) (Michael Moorcock)
Die Tochter des Kriegers (The Warlord's Legacy) (Ari Marmell)
Totenstadt (City of the Dead) (Rosemary Jones)
Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Verlorene Söhne - Der Große Bruderkrieg 12 (A Thousand Sons) (Graham McNeill)
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew (Daniel Pool)
Welsh walkes and legends (Showell Styles)
Welten und Zeit genug (Worlds enough and time) (Dan Simmons)
The Winds of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Wounded King (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
The Wreakage of Paradise (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Der Wüstenplanet (Dune) (Frank Herbert)
June (27):
Blood Rites - The Dresden Files 6 (Jim Butcher): Harry Dresden vs. the White Court, Harry Dresden vs. Marva of the Black Court, Harry Dresden vs. the ex Wives of a Porn Producer... what next, Dresden vs. the Marine Corps?
The Book of Lost Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien): As I mentioned before I normally enjoy going through all the "Apocrypha" of Middle-Earth, but this time the reading got tough...
The Book of Lost Tales, vol. 2 (J.R.R. Tolkien): ...and in the end I just read the commentries to the texts and fragments.
The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien): My favorite version of the tale of Túrin Turambar. I just wish we could have a similar version of the tale of Tuor or the tale of Beren and Lúthien.
Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (Gabriel García Márquez): More "literary fiction" from sternenwanderer, this time a ... description (Not really a tale) of an honour murder commited in latin america, with little reflection on what happend or the reasons, and that slowly stops with no conclusion.
Die Damen von Grace Adieu (The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories) (Susanna Clarke): While I loved her "slightly not short" novel "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell", I did find her short fiction (A gift from sternenwanderer) a bit harder to enjoy.
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens): It's been a long tim since I last read some Dickens, so I thought I'd start with my favorite amonst his tales.
Death masks - The Dresden Files 5 (Jim Butcher): Once again a tough case - Susan is back in town, the Red Court has sent a master duelist to kill him, and the Fallen are in Chicago to steal the stolen shroud of Turin.
Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (Philip K. Dick): One of the classics of SF, the inspiration to Balde Runner - and yet a completely different story.
Der Fluch des Verächters (Lord Foul's Bane) (Stephen R. Donaldson): It's not popular or "pc" to like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant these days, even though they are together with LotR at the core of the post-war fanatsy canon. The main character is "too unlikable", there's a rape scene that "is never delt with" (and that'a pure bullshit, because that one act is more than anything else the thing that drives the motivations of the main character, and not in a "well I liked it" way). But you know what? I like it, and I'll stand with it.
Der Glanz des Mondes (Brilliance of the Moon) (Lian Hearne): The (at least for me) final part of the "Tales of the Otori", and for some reason this book troubled me quite a bit this time, but I can't quite place my finger on why.
Helena oder das Meer des Sommers (Julián Ayesta): sternenwanderer seems to have decided I need to expand my horizon and read more "literary" fiction, as she sent me a box with a whole lot of them for my birthday, including this spanish tale of a soft summer romance.
Himmelssturz (Pushing Ice) (Alastair Reynolds): Telling you too much about this one would give away the good parts. Let's just say it starts with a comet hunting ship being sent after the moon Janus after it turns out to be some kind of alien artefact after it starts to leave the solar system
Hüter der Pforten (Various Authors): A collection of "lovecraftian" short stories.
The Man in the high castle (Philip K. Dick): Dick's tale of a world in which Germany won the second world war, but built inside the story is a story of a world in which Germany was the looser - but is it our world?
Nemesis - Der Große Bruderkrieg 13 (Nemesis) (James Swallow): Yes, once again the Universe of Warahmmer 40,000 rears it's head. This time, it's a plot to kill the rebel leader, Horus, with a crack team of Assassins - while the assassins themselves are hunted by an assassin...
Nollops Vermächtnis (Ella Minnow Pea): Okay, I'm sure that all this "literary fiction" sternenwanderer sent me has but one goal - to drive me mad. In this story, the citizens of a small island start to ban letters, one after another. I have grave respect for the poor person who had to translate this, but...
On Writing (Stephen King): Probably the only book on writing I would actually recommend to anyone. As Mr. King himself says, it's a short, no bullshit book. If you can get the audiobook version read by the author, do so.
Das Papierhaus (Carlos Maria Domínguez): Anotehr short latin tale by the grace of sternenwanderer. A weird little story of someone who built a house of books
Der Pfad im Schnee (Grass for his pillow) (Lian Hearn): The second part of the "Tales of the Otori" series (I still hold it to be a trilogy with add-ons to make more money)
Principia Discordia: It's a religious tome, a joke, a scrapbook
Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds): The first novel by a fellow wleshman, this is a facinating hard SF novel that is at the same time very much transhumanistic, with spaceships travelling at relativistic speads and highly advanced human augmentation
Das Schwert in der Stille (Across the Nightingale Floor) (Lian Hearn): A "all age fantasy" tale of a young boy in a peudo-Japan who is adopted by a Lord who is popular but kept weak by his family, and how together they strive for both justice and vengance.
Shakespeare (Bill Bryson): A short book, containing only the facts known about "the Bard", with little to no speculation.
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks): I talked about this one earlier this month.
Winter Witch (Elaine Cunningham): A fantasy Novel set in the world of the Pathfinder RPG. Bought it on an impulse - was pretty good, and for once it wasn't one of her normal "Elves are so cool" tales.
Writing Fiction for dummies (Randy Ingermanson & Peter Economy): Yes, a writing help book. Yes, I have the bug again and I'm still a wee bit selfconsious of my problems thanks to a certain someone.
2012 (97):
A morbid initiation (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
A Nomad of the Time Streams (Michael Moorcock)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Against a dark background (Iain M. Banks)
The Algebraist (Iain M. Banks)
Der Amboss der Welt (The Anvil of the World) (Kage Baker)
Die anderen Erden (The wreaks of time) (Michael Moorcock)
Ashes and Angel Wings (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Beast Within (Stewart Wick, Edit.)
Behold the man (Michael Moorcock)
Bloody Scotland (Terry Deary)
Blut der Abtrünnigen - Der Große Bruderkrieg 11 (Tales of Heresy) (Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestly, Editors)
The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson)
Das Buch Corum (Michael Moorcock)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
Das Cornelius Rezept (A cure for cancer) (Michael Moorcock)
Cthulhu Geistergeschichten (H.P. Lovecraft)
The cut-throat Celts (Terry Deary)
Daemon World (Ben Counter)
The Dancers at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Dark Imperium (Marc Gascoigne, Andy Jones, Editors)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Drood (Dan Simmons)
Der Eiserne Rat (Iron Council)
Eiszeit 4000 (The ice Schooner) (Michael Moorcock)
Eldritch Tales - A miscellancy of the macabre (H.P. Lovecraft)
Elric at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Elric von Melniboné - Die Sage vom Ende der Zeit (Michael Moorcock)
Excession (Iain M. Banks)
Feersum Endjiin (Iain M. Banks)
Fool Moon - The Dresden Files 2 (Jim Butcher)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Founding - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
Gloriana or the unfulfilled Queen (Michael Moorcock)
Der Gottkaiser des Wüstenplaneten (God-Emperor of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Grave Peril - The Dresden Files 3 (Jim Butcher)
Das Haus Atreides (Dune: House Atreides) (Brain Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Harkonnen (Dune: House Harkonnen) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Corrino (Dune: House Corrino) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten (Dune Messiah) (Frank Herbert)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
Hunters of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Die Hyperion-Gesänge (Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion) (Dan Simmons)
Ilium (Dan Simmons)
Imperium (Robert Harris)
Imperium (Hans-Christian Huf)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jennifer Goverment (Max Barry)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanne Clarke)
Die Ketzer des Wüstenplaneten (Heretics of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kinder des Wüstenplaneten (Children of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kriegsmeute (The Warhound & the World's Pain) (Michael Moorcock)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Lustrum (Robert Harris)
The Lost - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
The Madness of Priests (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
Magira - Jahrbuch zur Fantasy 2005 (Hermann Ritter, Michael Scheuch, editors)
Maschinengeist (Chris Schlicht)
Matter (Iain M. Banks)
Miss Brunners letztes Programm (The final Programme) (Michael Moorcock)
Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
Olympos (Dan Simmons)
Die Ordensburg des Wüstenplaneten (Chapterhouse Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Paul of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Pawns of Chaos (Brian Craig)
Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
Die Rache der Rose (The Revenge of the Rose) (Michael Moorcock)
The Road to Dune (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Der Runenstab (Michael Moorcock)
The Saint - A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Dan Abnett)
Sandworms of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Scar (China Miéville)
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling, Wolfgang Jeshke, Editors)
The Seven Deadlies (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Die Stadt des Ungeheuers (The City of the Beast) (Michael Moorcock)
The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
Storm Front - The Dresden Files 1 (Jim Butcher)
Summer Knight - The Dresden Files 4 (Jim Butcher)
Surface Detail (Iain M. Banks)
Tochter der Traumdiebe (The Dreamthief's Daughter) (Michael Moorcock)
Die Tochter des Kriegers (The Warlord's Legacy) (Ari Marmell)
Totenstadt (City of the Dead) (Rosemary Jones)
Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Verlorene Söhne - Der Große Bruderkrieg 12 (A Thousand Sons) (Graham McNeill)
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew (Daniel Pool)
Welsh walkes and legends (Showell Styles)
Welten und Zeit genug (Worlds enough and time) (Dan Simmons)
The Winds of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Wounded King (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
The Wreakage of Paradise (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Der Wüstenplanet (Dune) (Frank Herbert)
June (27):
Blood Rites - The Dresden Files 6 (Jim Butcher): Harry Dresden vs. the White Court, Harry Dresden vs. Marva of the Black Court, Harry Dresden vs. the ex Wives of a Porn Producer... what next, Dresden vs. the Marine Corps?
The Book of Lost Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien): As I mentioned before I normally enjoy going through all the "Apocrypha" of Middle-Earth, but this time the reading got tough...
The Book of Lost Tales, vol. 2 (J.R.R. Tolkien): ...and in the end I just read the commentries to the texts and fragments.
The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien): My favorite version of the tale of Túrin Turambar. I just wish we could have a similar version of the tale of Tuor or the tale of Beren and Lúthien.
Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (Gabriel García Márquez): More "literary fiction" from sternenwanderer, this time a ... description (Not really a tale) of an honour murder commited in latin america, with little reflection on what happend or the reasons, and that slowly stops with no conclusion.
Die Damen von Grace Adieu (The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories) (Susanna Clarke): While I loved her "slightly not short" novel "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell", I did find her short fiction (A gift from sternenwanderer) a bit harder to enjoy.
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens): It's been a long tim since I last read some Dickens, so I thought I'd start with my favorite amonst his tales.
Death masks - The Dresden Files 5 (Jim Butcher): Once again a tough case - Susan is back in town, the Red Court has sent a master duelist to kill him, and the Fallen are in Chicago to steal the stolen shroud of Turin.
Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (Philip K. Dick): One of the classics of SF, the inspiration to Balde Runner - and yet a completely different story.
Der Fluch des Verächters (Lord Foul's Bane) (Stephen R. Donaldson): It's not popular or "pc" to like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant these days, even though they are together with LotR at the core of the post-war fanatsy canon. The main character is "too unlikable", there's a rape scene that "is never delt with" (and that'a pure bullshit, because that one act is more than anything else the thing that drives the motivations of the main character, and not in a "well I liked it" way). But you know what? I like it, and I'll stand with it.
Der Glanz des Mondes (Brilliance of the Moon) (Lian Hearne): The (at least for me) final part of the "Tales of the Otori", and for some reason this book troubled me quite a bit this time, but I can't quite place my finger on why.
Helena oder das Meer des Sommers (Julián Ayesta): sternenwanderer seems to have decided I need to expand my horizon and read more "literary" fiction, as she sent me a box with a whole lot of them for my birthday, including this spanish tale of a soft summer romance.
Himmelssturz (Pushing Ice) (Alastair Reynolds): Telling you too much about this one would give away the good parts. Let's just say it starts with a comet hunting ship being sent after the moon Janus after it turns out to be some kind of alien artefact after it starts to leave the solar system
Hüter der Pforten (Various Authors): A collection of "lovecraftian" short stories.
The Man in the high castle (Philip K. Dick): Dick's tale of a world in which Germany won the second world war, but built inside the story is a story of a world in which Germany was the looser - but is it our world?
Nemesis - Der Große Bruderkrieg 13 (Nemesis) (James Swallow): Yes, once again the Universe of Warahmmer 40,000 rears it's head. This time, it's a plot to kill the rebel leader, Horus, with a crack team of Assassins - while the assassins themselves are hunted by an assassin...
Nollops Vermächtnis (Ella Minnow Pea): Okay, I'm sure that all this "literary fiction" sternenwanderer sent me has but one goal - to drive me mad. In this story, the citizens of a small island start to ban letters, one after another. I have grave respect for the poor person who had to translate this, but...
On Writing (Stephen King): Probably the only book on writing I would actually recommend to anyone. As Mr. King himself says, it's a short, no bullshit book. If you can get the audiobook version read by the author, do so.
Das Papierhaus (Carlos Maria Domínguez): Anotehr short latin tale by the grace of sternenwanderer. A weird little story of someone who built a house of books
Der Pfad im Schnee (Grass for his pillow) (Lian Hearn): The second part of the "Tales of the Otori" series (I still hold it to be a trilogy with add-ons to make more money)
Principia Discordia: It's a religious tome, a joke, a scrapbook
Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds): The first novel by a fellow wleshman, this is a facinating hard SF novel that is at the same time very much transhumanistic, with spaceships travelling at relativistic speads and highly advanced human augmentation
Das Schwert in der Stille (Across the Nightingale Floor) (Lian Hearn): A "all age fantasy" tale of a young boy in a peudo-Japan who is adopted by a Lord who is popular but kept weak by his family, and how together they strive for both justice and vengance.
Shakespeare (Bill Bryson): A short book, containing only the facts known about "the Bard", with little to no speculation.
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks): I talked about this one earlier this month.
Winter Witch (Elaine Cunningham): A fantasy Novel set in the world of the Pathfinder RPG. Bought it on an impulse - was pretty good, and for once it wasn't one of her normal "Elves are so cool" tales.
Writing Fiction for dummies (Randy Ingermanson & Peter Economy): Yes, a writing help book. Yes, I have the bug again and I'm still a wee bit selfconsious of my problems thanks to a certain someone.